Air Canada Championship

The Air Canada Championship was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1996 to 2002. It was played at the Northview Golf & Country Club (Ridge Course) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1996 as the Greater Vancouver Open. The purse for the 2002 tournament was $3,500,000, with $630,000 going to the winner.

This was not the first time the PGA Tour included a stop in British Columbia on their schedule. Dow Finsterwald won the unofficial 1955 British Columbia Open Invitational, and Jim Ferree was victorious at the 1958 Vancouver Open Invitational.^[1]

Winners

Air Canada Championship

• 2002 Gene Sauers
• 2001 Joel Edwards
• 2000 Rory Sabbatini
• 1999 Mike Weir

Greater Vancouver Open

• 1998 Brandel Chamblee
• 1997 Mark Calcavecchia
• 1996 Guy Boros

Vancouver Open Invitational

• 1958 Jim Ferree

References

External links

• Tournament results at GolfObserver.com - select under "Tournament Name"
• 2002 Tournament preview - at GolfToday.co.uk